"fit" zoom option scales down but not up.

[Trouilliez vincent]

Binary package hint: eog

Pressing the "zoom fit" button on the toolbar shrinks down large images to make them fit the window, however it fails to do operate the other way around, that is expand small images to fit the window.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jun 7 11:37:41 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/eog
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: eog 2.22.2-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: eog
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-18-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, do you know any image viewer that does this? It doesnt make too much sense to me if you have the zoom options there. I've been testing with gthumb and it doesnt have an option like this either.

[Trouilliez vincent (vincent-trouilliez-modulonet)]

> do you know any image viewer that does this?

For many years now I use "GQview" to view all my pictures, and it does this (that's why I expected eog to behave the same).

> It doesnt make too much sense to me if you have the zoom options there

I think it makes a lot of sense ;-)

- if having zoom options is considered good enough to enlarge pics, then why is it that it's not good enough to shrink them and we have this zoom fit feature ?
- Zoom "fit": "fit" means "fit". If an image is too large then in order to "fit" it must be shrunk, but if it's too small then in order to "fit" it obviously has to be enlarged, :-)

It does make a lot of sense to me ! ;-)

> I've been testing with gthumb and it doesnt have an option like this either.

Then I guess a bug report should be filed against Gthumb as well.. but since I never use Gthumb, I won't bother ;-)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not sure that's a bug, you should discuss that on bugzilla.gnome.org directly, the feature is there to display on screen images easily, if the image already fits on screen there is nothing to change

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

upstream comment on bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399991

"Best fit means: if the image if bigger that the available window size, adjust
it to fit the window size. If the image is smaller than the available size, it
should *not* zoom in to fit the window size. This is NOTABUG but a design
choice.
"

[Timmi (cadout)]

If anyone has WINE installed, IRFANVIEW is the program these are all trying to imitate.
It is simple, fast, effective, a few more features, AND IT WORKS!

About this, and gThumb, both do NOT fit to window! They will shrink an image SMALLER than the window, but the FIT button NEVER really makes anything "fit"!

Hence, the zoom buttons are the only ones of any use really... but even with those... if you Zoom and the image is larger than the window, the window will not automatically resize up to a maximum of the screensize.

If the authors aren't quite sure about my explanations, try irfanview and you'll see one with good execution and how these programs are expected to behave.

[Timmi (cadout)]

I was too quick on the draw there:

GTHUMB DOES WORK! gThumb version 2.10.11 is what I have installed in Mint.

It is a more complete package. For newbies... after you install gThumb, right-click on an image of each type, select "properties", "open with", and highlight "eye-of-gnome" and click "delete"... if your selector didn't automatically move up to gThumb, select it and press "Close".

Still, I would recommend to developers to take a look at irfanview, if they'd like inspiration to refine gThumb even further.